I'm pretty sure Tim is right. They're celebrating the Day of the Three Kings or whatever. Different event, different date, same calendars.

Is there actually any proof that dinosaurs were wiped out very suddenly? Hundreds of thousands to millions of years to kill off the dinosaurs sure doesn't sound like a mass extinction event to me.

Turtles, alligators, crocodiles... they all survived from the era of the dinosaurs.

But the huge dinosaurs we all know and love. They didn't make it.

Why would mosquitos kill off triceratops and t-rex but not the crocodilians or turtles?

@Googamooga and L.C.

If we culled all the drug users out of the population, a great many of your favourite people would be gone. And a great many of the inventions that make your life easier, and the art and entertainment that you enjoy, would never have existed.

You two are really, really myopic.

as soon as that door deforms in a collision it isn't going to neatly slide under the car.

but then again, do any car doors open after something smashes into them?

No Junkestra is complete without Hurra Torpedo:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ysUjYAi0WcQ

This article has been going around framed as the kid getting arrested for virtual theft. However, he apparently committed a real-world crime: hacking.

I wonder if he is REALLY being charged with burglary for the virtual furniture, and I wonder if there would have been any charges at all if he had done it without hacking the accounts.

What's next? Charging people with murder in Warcraft for PvP?

Also, if there can be a charge of burlary for taking the virtual furniture, that implies it has real world value. Couldn't the company running the virtual world then be sued should they ever lose the server data or even for shutting the service down and going out of business?

If I store my furniture in a rent-a-garage, they can't just bulldoze the whole thing without letting me get my stuff first.

I think Millenials need to start asking themselves, is empathy enough? Is empathy alone effective? You can care all you want, but caring isn't action.

munchausen?

@ LB Jeffries who said:

"Sometimes I think the Millenials are this country’s only hope to return to glory."

Millenials have had everything handed to them, and have never had to fight for anything in their entire lives. If they're our only hope, we're doomed... because they'll all sit online or in front of the TV, and no matter how "outraged" they are about something, they'll never do more than blog about it.

Hell, they probably being think blogging can make a difference.

Most of them who are old enough still don't even vote.

@ Emily and others who say:

"Global Warming is not a threat to any sort of peace"

Global warming is caused by humankind's dependence on fossil fuels like coal and oil, and our unsustainable use of these fuels.

We fight wars for these fuels.

And, when the climate gets bad enough, we'll fight wars for that, too.

You're incredibly naive.

A tazer would have been a helpful tool for this officer.

Pretty interesting video given the other news lately.

I hope you are a troll Ben.

If you're not, from your comments it is pretty clear that you are white and above the poverty level... yet somehow you're still a fucking idiot, which by your own argument means you shouldn't have the money you do.

I guess maybe you're wrong?

While we're on the subject, the WI State Lottery Pick 3 on Halloween (Oct. 31) of the year 1996 was:

666

http://www.wilottery.com/lottogames/apick3.asp

It is definitely a real head. This was on TV and they took tissue samples. The expert (before the tissue sampling) said it was a grey fox with mange. No word on the DNA yet.

so. good.